Strategy: Below the Application: The High Risk of Low-Level Threats

Much of today’s malware works on applications, exploiting code vulnerabilities in the ­software that employees use every day. But there is a growing number of attacks that work at the operating system level and below, enabling attackers to gain full control of devices at a root level and/or infect them before they fully boot. In this report, Dark ­Reading ­explains the ways in which low-level attacks—including the newest rootkits, RAM-level and other memory-level attacks, and OS kernel-level exploits—insinuate themselves into your ­systems and why they are particularly difficult to detect and flush out. (S7140613)